Re: [gentoo-dev] tmpfiles virtual

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 09:49:22 -0600
"Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 2016-11-14 23:09, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:23:10 -0600
> > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have been working on splitting the tmpfiles functionality out of
> >> OpenRC [1], and I believe the new package is about to enter the tree.
> >>
> >> OpenRC itself doesn't need this package to boot since it doesn't use
> >> tmpfiles.d files, but other software does need it.
> >>
> >> This brings up a couple of questions.
> >>
> >> Since we now will have two different ways to process tmpfiles, is
> >> virtual/tmpfiles appropriate, with the default being opentmpfiles?
> >
> > Yes. Virtual will allow us to control list of supported implementations
> > easily. We can also use it to control different versions of tmpfiles
> > format.
> >
> >> Once opentmpfiles is in the tree and stable, should virtual/tmpfiles
> >> be added to @system, or should we have the packages that need it rdepend
> >> on it directly? I tend to lean toward the second option.
> >
> > We will RDEPEND on it via tmpfiles.eclass. I think floppym has a draft
> > somewhere. In case that draft uses DEPEND, it just occurred to me that
> > we need RDEPEND for pkg_postinst().
> >
>
> What about administrator-specified temporary files in /etc/tmpfiles.d?
> It would be rather unfortunate to have stuff suddenly stop working
> because an OpenRC got updated and stopped creating these temporary files.

I'd say it would be reasonable for OpenRC to pull it in, since OpenRC
used to provide tmpfiles support for some time already.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>